The paper explains the importance of reading stories to young hearing impaired children and describes effective story reading techniques for use by parents, teachers, and librarians. Considered in outline form are the following topics: the role of adults in motivating young hearing impaired children to read, selection of stories for young children, principles of story telling, and examples of activities to develop reading appreciation skills. Concluding the document is a list of skills for developing reading appreciation in young children. (CL)